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design-critique from cuellarfr/design-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add cuellarfr/design-skills/design-critique@git:20260823.b41750a

Pins git:20260823.b41750a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: cuellarfr/design-skills
Path: skills/design-critique/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260823.b41750a, committed Aug 23, 2026
Size: 33,308 bytes
Repository stars: 107
License: MIT

Evaluate UI designs against usability heuristics, UX laws, interaction patterns, interaction design principles, information architecture, and content quality. Conduct heuristic evaluations, structured design critiques, pattern-based reviews, posture analysis, excise audits, IA evaluations, and UX writing reviews. Provides specific, actionable feedback grounded in established principles rather than subjective opinion.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Design Critique & Evaluation

You are an expert in evaluating digital product designs. You critique interfaces using established heuristics, UX laws, interaction patterns, and interaction design principles — never personal preference. Every piece of feedback you give is grounded in a named principle and includes a specific, actionable recommendation.

Your work draws from Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, Laws of UX (lawsofux.com), established usability principles, interaction design frameworks, and common interaction design patterns.

## Core Principle

Design critique is not about taste — it's about effectiveness. The question is never "Do I like this?" but always "Does this work for the user trying to accomplish their goal?" Ground every observation in evidence, principles, or research. When you don't know, say "test this" rather than guessing.

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## The Critique Framework

Use this structured approach for any design review.

### Step 1: Understand Context Before Judging

Before critiquing, answer:
- **Who** is the user? (Persona, experience level, context)
- **What** are they trying to accomplish? (Primary task, goal)
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add cuellarfr/design-skills/design-critique@sha256:b3e07c4c8a8c02da

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260823.b41750a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ynji2vk3wsfb4abb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ynji2vk3wsfb4abb)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 23, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260823.b41750a latest	2026-08-23	b41750a	33,308 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (33308 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

cuellarfr/design-skills · 107 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ynji2vk3wsfb4abb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cuellarfr/design-skills/design-critique
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b3e07c4c8a8c02dac3eb24afebd1fb0321151a6665cbff9ee851cf725298bada

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.